Explore Quotes by Mother Jones

Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

Freedom for the working class!

Your ancestors fought for you to have a share in that institution over there. It's yours. See the school board, and every Friday night hold your meetings there. Have your wives clean it up Saturday morning for the children to enter Monday. Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination

You know I took an oath to tell the truth when I took the witness stand

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I have always advised men to read

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

I will tell the truth wherever I please.

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.